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Brand New!! Wild Fauna Creative Someone Of The Twelvemonth 2012 - Telephone Telephone For Entries (X2)

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There are 2 fine art competitions inwards the U.K. for the Wildlife Artist of the Year.  These are:
Amur Ambush by Stella Mays
Overall as well as Endangered Species Winner - BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011
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This post summarises both fine art competitions for ease of reference of those wild fauna artists who anticipate entering these competitions

It spells out
  • where you lot tin move discovery the rules of entry as well as whatsoever additional data close the competition
  • who tin move enter
  • what you lot tin move submit (and, every bit important, what is ineligible)
  • how to enter
  • the deadline
  • details of the exhibition as well as other ways inwards which artwork is displayed
For those contemplating both exhibitions as well as wondering which 1 to enter, the principal differences are every bit follows.  Anybody spotting whatsoever other meaning departure delight move out a comment!
  • Prizes: 
    • There's a meaning cash outset prize of £10,000 for the DS WAY 2012
    • The top prize for the BBC WAY is a 10-day ikon safari amongst Pip McGarry inwards Republic of Botswana inwards Oct 2012,
  • Deadlines for entries:  
    • You remove maintain a few extra weeks to submit an entry for the BBC WAY (deadline 29 Feb compared to twenty January for DS WAY). 
    • Both require (BBC) or encourage (DS) digital online entries.
    • Maximum digital paradigm size is 6mb for DS WAY as well as 1MB for BBC WAY
  • Eligible artwork: 
    • BOTH insist that all artwork must live master copy as well as the artist's ain work.
    • the DS WAY 2012 permits 3D operate piece the BBC WAY does not
    • The DS WAY is rattling specific that whatsoever paradigm used must non remove maintain been published or seen inwards world earlier anywhere
  • Categories: DS WAY has 7 categories as well as BBC WAY has thirteen categories
  • Eligible media:  Both are quite flexible close media which tin move live used - but besides stipulate media which cannot live used for an entry.  Neither accepts digital entries or figurer generated artwork.
  • International Artists:  the BBC WAY judges all submissions from international artists digitally whereas DS WAY but selects for exhibition from digital images
  • Exhibition:
    • Only the winning moving ikon from the BBC WAY volition live displayed at the Mall Galleries inwards London (at the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists) whereas the whole exhibition of the  DS WAY is at the Mall Galleries.
    • The principal exhibition for the DS WAY is at the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society exhibition inwards August.
    • the winning as well as commended entries inwards the BBC WAY are displayed online whereas all entries all displayed online yesteryear DA WAY
    • the BBC Way release images of all the category winners inwards the BBC Wildlife Magazine.


Now for the nitty gritty details......

David Shepherd’s Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 

David Filer
Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011
This is an first-class exhibition as well as I was sorry to miss the 1 terminal summertime due to beingness on holiday.  It gets a lot of visitors as well as the Private View is e'er packed amongst artists as well as collectors.

Before entering a competition, it's often a rattling expert thought to cheque out the competition! The best way of doing that is to see the exhibition.  If that's hard to do, you lot tin move e'er endeavor viewing the online exhibition of those selected terminal year's Wildlife Artist of the Year.

This provides a guide for those who haven't entered earlier of the type of fine art which sells as well as the form of prices charged for dissimilar types of artwork.

Remember that some of the prices are rattling much influenced yesteryear how successful the creative soul is inwards selling to collectors!

Tips:
  • Click the details link nether each paradigm to cheque out the media as well as size of each piece.
  • Click the bio link side yesteryear side to the artist's call to cheque out their sense as well as status every bit wild fauna artists.  
  • This is a link to those artists who won prizes
Prizes inwards 2012
  • The First Prize is £10,000 
  • the runner-up wins £1,000 as well as a personal fine art workshop amongst David Shepherd
The rules of entry 2012
Who tin move enter

David Shepherd’s Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 contest is opened upward to
  • individual entrants who are aged 17 years or over (You must live 17 yesteryear the closing appointment for entries i.e. 21 Jan 2012)
  • entries from the U.K. as well as other countries
  • entries from both amateur as well as professional person artists alike.  The judges volition non distinguish betwixt them. 
What to submit
Wildlife tin move hateful whatsoever wild brute or seat as well as we’re peculiarly keen to come across to a greater extent than British wild fauna as well as landscape entries”
  • Entries must live master copy artwork by the entrant.  It must live all their ain master copy work.
    • Artists using exact reference from some other professional person creative soul or lensman remove a opportunity having their operate rejected.  (That's a polite way of maxim no copying allowed!  A major business office of an master copy artwork relates to composition, cropping as well as lighting of the subject)
    • (I've paraphrased the entry weather condition hither - inwards business office to highlight a related indicate which is non mentioned.  In full general artwork completed piece participating inwards a workshop or plane is ofttimes NOT considered yesteryear fine art societies to live master copy as well as unaided operate yesteryear the creative soul alone.  I don't know how it's viewed yesteryear this contest but I'd suggest erring on the side of caution)
  • Entries must live work completed inside the terminal v years 
  • Every entry needs to seat 1 of the seven competition categories  
    1. Endangered Wildlife - whatsoever wild brute or flora that is threatened or endangered nationally or internationally 
    2. Wild Places - whatsoever scene or landscape showing the natural surroundings at its most beautiful or dramatic 
    3. Wildlife inwards Action - whatsoever wild brute jumping, fighting, flying or whatsoever other interesting behaviour 
    4. Wildlife inwards 3D - sculpture inwards whatsoever medium 
    5. Go Wild - permit your imagination larn wild! 
    6. Young & Wild - opened upward to 17-25 yr olds roofing all 6 categories 
    7. Wild Life - whatsoever wild animals including birds as well as plants inwards Great Britain or anywhere around the world
  • Eligible media 
    • includes oil, acrylic, watercolour, pencil, mixed media, bronze, plaster, wire, collage
    • excludes: photography as well as celluloid as well as electronically created artwork
  • Any way of artwork tin move live entered - i.e. it does non remove maintain to adhere to realism
  • All artwork entered has to live available for sale
    • That agency if you've sold it practise non re-create it (ie it has to live original) or enquire for it dorsum for the purposes of the exhibition (because it has to live capable of beingness sold)
  • Artwork which is INELIGIBLE for entry:
    • any artwork that has been entered inwards previous years
    • artwork completed prior to completed earlier 21st Jan 2007
How to enter
  • The deadline for entry is 21 Jan 2012
    • Website entry closes at midnight (21st/22nd)
    • postal entries must live received yesteryear 5pm on 21st Jan 2012
  • Every entry requires a fee of £25 (DSWF Members as well as 17-25 category entrants - £10). 
  • You tin move larn inwards online at www.davidshepherd.org
    • digital paradigm of an artwork + completed online shape + payment of fee = 1 entry
    • Online entries volition but live accepted every bit Jpeg digital images
      • the recommended minimum size is 2560 x 1920 pixels 
      • the file size should non laissez passer on 6MB. 
    • Multiple entries yesteryear an private are allowed but must live paid for as well as uploaded separately
    • Payment must live made when you lot submit the completed online shape as well as upload the digital file of the artwork
  • You tin move larn inwards yesteryear post
    • Use the postal entry form to enter the competition
    • Send a jpeg file on a CD (use multiple images for a 3D work)
    • call the Foundation on 01483 272323 for to a greater extent than details
Judging as well as selection
  • judging takes seat inwards the Spring as well as artists are advised asap later on selection.
  • Only artists selected for the exhibition volition live asked to render master copy artwork
  • This contest has a category for selected artists called "selected but non hung".
The exhibition 

There's naught on the website to say where as well as when the exhibition is - but it's commonly at the Mall Gallery inwards June.  That mightiness live a fleck dissimilar this yr because of the Olympics.

For to a greater extent than details contact: Vicky Flynn at the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation on 01483 272323 or via email Vicky.flynn@davidshepherd.org

BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012

This Prize hasn't been going long but it has attracted an first-class calibre of entry as well as the category winners provide a stimulating hit of images.  I besides personally saw Stella Mays's winning entry at this year's SWA exhibition as well as it was rattling impressive (see paradigm at the top of this post).

Prize
  • The overall BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 wins a seat for 1 soul on a 10-day ikon safari amongst Pip McGarry inwards Republic of Botswana inwards Oct 2012, including flights from London Heathrow, transfers, accommodation as well as wild fauna viewing.
The rules of entry 2012

On the website of DiscoverWildlife.com you tin move discovery the:


Who tin move enter
  • The contest is opened upward to all artists aged xviii or over, amateur or professional
  • You cannot enter if you lot are an employee or the immediate seat unit of measurement of an employee of BBC Worldwide, Immediate Media Co as well as Elephant Trails Safari Co.
What to submit
  • You tin move submit upward to a maximum of 8 entries
  • Artwork must characteristic wildlife – birds, mammals, waterlife, invertebrates as well as plants – inwards a natural or captive environment.
  • Artwork must remove maintain been created inwards the yesteryear year 
  • Artwork must live two dimensional but as well as contained inside the size limits
    • maximum size when framed is 44 inches inwards whatsoever direction; 
    • actual artwork should non laissez passer on twoscore inches inwards whatsoever direction.
  • Artwork must live your ain master copy work. (To live master copy artwork cannot live derivative or a re-create of whatsoever other artwork which tin move claim copyright).  This agency you lot must be 
    • EITHER the sole writer as well as possessor of the copyright of all artwork entered, 
    • OR if your operate is copied from a photograph(s) that is/are non your own, you lot must remove maintain sole permission inwards writing from the copyright possessor to utilization his/her work. (That agency you lot are buying sole correct to utilization a photograph as well as nobody else tin move utilization it later on you lot - non cheap!  Again this comes dorsum to the notion of an paradigm that has never earlier been seen inwards world - then you lot can't remove maintain spotted it on an meshwork site every bit that agency it's been published)
    • Copies of published photographs or paintings are non eligible. 
    • Source textile or proof of permission to utilization must live made available on asking yesteryear the judges. BBC Wildlife does non convey whatsoever liability inwards the publication of unlawfully reproduced art.
  • The 2012 categories are: 
    1. British Mammals (behaviour as well as portraits)
    2. British Birds (behaviour as well as portraits)
    3. All Other Wildlife (behaviour as well as portraits, inwards the U.K. as well as worldwide)
    4. The Wonder of Plants (British as well as worldwide)
    5. Beneath the Water (marine as well as fresh water)
    6. Animals inwards their Environment (British as well as worldwide)
    7. World Mammals (behaviour as well as portraits)
    8. World Birds (behaviour as well as portraits)
    9. Black as well as White Nature (pencil, lino cuts, etchings, woods block etc)
    10. Visions of Nature (innovative, creative impressions of wildlife)
    11. Frozen Planet (please note: entries must characteristic brute life)
    12. Endangered Species (entries must characteristic species listed yesteryear the IUCN every bit ‘Endangered’ or ‘Critically Endangered’)
    13. International Artists – a category judged digitally, solely for artists exterior of the UK. This is to salvage our international entrants the groovy costs of sending artwork to the UK.
Artwork which is ineligible for entry includes:
  • Artwork which has won a prize inwards whatsoever other contest anywhere inwards the world, or been published yesteryear a tertiary party.  (In other words, they but desire fresh to the marketplace, never been seen before, unique artwork!)
  • 3D artwork
  • Computer-generated artworks will not live accepted.
  • Diptychs, triptychs as well as box canvases are non admissible.
  • Artwork which exceeds the size limits
How to enter
  • The deadline for entries is 29 Feb 2012
  • All entries must live submitted online
    • submit a completed online entry form 
    • state the category, your call as well as the discipline inwards the championship (in this order) 
    • upload a jpg paradigm at a resolution of 300dpi (maximum file size 1MB file) . 
  • Artists living exterior the U.K. must larn inwards the International Artists category as well as no other then that all judging is fair.
Judging as well as selection
  • The artwork volition live judged yesteryear an independent panel appointed yesteryear BBC Wildlife. 
  • The judges are:
    • Pip McGarry - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 professional person wild fauna creative soul as well as the founder as well as chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS)
    • Sophie Stafford - Sophie is the editor of BBC Wildlife 
    • Chris Rose - An internationally acclaimed wild fauna creative soul and leading fellow member as well as secretarial assistant of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA).
    • David Cromack - magazine editor for 25 years (Birds Illustrated as well as Bird Art & Photography) as well as co-publisher of the Buckingham Press 
    • Mandy Shepherd - miss of David Shepherd and painter of both military machine as well as wild fauna subjects.
The Exhibition

Selected images volition live displayed inwards 4 dissimilar ways!
  • All of the category-winning pieces volition be 
  • The overall winning artwork volition besides live displayed at the 48th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists at the Mall Galleries, London, inwards Autumn 2012.
  • The winning, runner-up as well as commended artworks volition besides live published inwards an online gallery at www.discoverwildlife.com
These are links to:
If you lot remove maintain whatsoever problems delight contact the BBC Wildlife squad on 0117 3147366 or e-mail the BBC Wildlife's editorial assistant, Heather.

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